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TIL if Texas was an independent country, it would rank as the world’s seventh largest producer of greenhouse gases

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xVb6w TIL that a burrito is legally not a sandwich. A Massachusetts judge ruled in White City v. PR Restaurants that "the term "sandwich" is not commonly understood to include burritos, tacos, and quesadillas"
6EedW TIL Milling is a training activity in the British airborne infantry. For a fixed period, two opponents punch each other in the head as aggressively as possible without evasion. An instructor described milling as "arguably the most important event of the [training] course"and its "flagship event"
dnxd TIL Following the pepper-spraying incident involving peaceful protesters and an overzealous Campus Cop, UC Davis spent at least $175K in an effort to ‘scrub’ the internet of negative posts about the incident, part of their “strategic communications” budget that reached $5.47M in 2015.
D1a6e TIL of Bone Music: in the Soviet Union, people craved Western pop music but vinyl was scarce, so they printed records on used x-rays
VMOaZ TIL about The Giving Pledge, a campaign started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to encourage extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.